commonalty

Meaning

Noun

• The common people; the commonality.
• A group of things having similar characteristics.
• A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
• The state or quality of having things in common.
• A shared feature.

Origin

• From Middle English communalte, comonalte, from Old French comunalté, comunauté (modern communauté), probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās.